Between Heaven and Hell: Underground, Alternative and
Urban Artists Take on Comics, Superheroes and Super-villains.

July 13th, 2012 from 6pm to close at Urban Light
Studios, the Greenwood Collective and the Echo Echo Gallery.

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Come join us at Urban Light Studios on Second Friday, July
13th from 6-close for “Between Heaven and Hell: Underground, Alternative
and Urban Artists Take on Comics, Superheroes and Super-villains.” Join the best and brightest in Seattle’s
Underground Art Scene as we celebrate four-color fantasy and history. Judges from various Art Galleries and Comic
Book Websites will help us pick the best artworks and we will have raffles and
prizes to give away to the public as well.
Please join us—especially if you can’t make it to San Diego Comic
Con—you won’t want to miss this!

Come join us at Urban Light Studios on Second Friday, July
13th from 6-close for “Between Heaven and Hell: Underground,
Alternative and Urban Artists Take on Comics, Superheroes and Super-villains.” Join us as we celebrate the best alternative
artists from Seattle, California and Europe as they come together to take on
the forces of good and evil in an art show dealing with all aspects of comics,
Superheroes and Super-villains. This group exhibition will focus on an
alternative interpretation of all things that come from the four-color world of
comics—a theme that has a long tradition in the art world. This will be a huge show, with artists
hailing from as far away as Italy and California—but will have as its primary focus
Seattle’s best alternative artists; including Augie Pagan (who designed our
awesome poster image), Ego, Carl Faulkner, Ryan “Henry” Ward, Larkin Cypher,
Margaret Organ-Kean, Kaja and Phil Foglio, Damon Conklin, Carlos Aguilar,
Xavier Lopez Jr. and others (including, possibly Jeff “Weirdo” Jacobson [a full
list follows]) and will include a hugely esteemed list of judges, including Greg
Lundgren of The Hideout, Rob Orr of Comic Booked.com and Larry Reid of Fantagraphics
Comics and Books and others from local art galleries.

In total, We plan to have approximately 100 of the best
alternative artists in this show and we have created a coalition between art
stores like Utrecht Art Supply Stores
(who will be donating gift certificates to give away as awards to artists at
the show,) comic book shops (including Zanadu
and Dreamstrand Comics) (who are
also donating space to put up posters and sharing toys and signed comics to
give away and to raffle,) and we even have a few comic book websites covering
the events of the show—Comic Booked
and Comics Bulletin, we will have
many posters around the city and even more postcards—but I won’t bore you with
that—what I am trying to say is that we are working hard to make this a very
big show and an awesome introduction to what we are all working on in the
alternative art scene here in Seattle.